Ben Bradlee, the hard-charging editor who guided The Washington Post through its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal and invigorated its newsroom for more than two decades, has died.

INCISIVE, clear, concise, RTÉ journalist, Séan O’Rourke, is dogged in his pursuit of a story.

Bob Woodward’s recent flap reveals a grotesquely swollen ego fed by 40 years of hero worship. Max Holland asks: why is this man an icon?

AT the crucial moment of their investigation into the Watergate scandal, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein told Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee that Deepthroat had confirmed the conspiracy ran to the highest levels of the White House.

At a time when the media in the US and elsewhere is under attack, check out All The President’s Men Special Edition (Warner, €24.99), the dramatic media probing by Woodward and Bernstein (Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman) which, aided by Deep Throat, stripped away a layer of conspiracy and cover up that eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Jim Caldwell sheds some light on the man of mystery who helped bring down a president

Former top FBI official Mark Felt was branded an American hero by his family after unmasking himself as the Deep Throat source who helped bring down President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal.

The Washington Post confirmed tonight that a former FBI official, Mark Felt, was the confidential source known as “Deep Throat” who provided the newspaper information that led to former President Richard Nixon’s impeachment and eventual resignation.

JOHN F KENNEDY had a reputation as a virile love-cheat president, even having a fling with Marilyn Monroe, but his wife complained that he was a lousy lover.

IF name-dropping is an art then Tony O’Reilly is Michelangelo.